LaDarius Butler had broken no law last year when he and his partner chose to take their 3-year-old child from a Colorado hospital after receiving conflicting medical advice on how to treat his shortness of breath in order to seek another medical opinion elsewhere.

But the Black man ended up tasered, handcuffed, and arrested on a false charge of obstruction, which was later dismissed.

Now the 32-year-old man is suing the Aurora Police Department, a law enforcement agency that is currently under a consent decree due to its “pattern and practice of violating state and federal law through racially biased policing,” according to IntegrAssure, the company overseeing the consent decree.

The lawsuit was filed in May, but body camera video was not released until Wednesday, according to a press r

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